Losses, Sidelobes, and Cross Polarization Caused by Feed-Support Struts in Reflector Antennas: Design Curves

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1988, Pages 182-190

  Kildal, Per Simon ^a   Olsen, Erik ^a   Aas, Jon Anders ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSS POLARIZATION; SIDELOBE LEVELS; STRUTS INDUCED FIELD RATIO (IFR); SYMMETRICAL REFLECTOR ANTENNA;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 0023961455     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: 15582221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.1095     Document Type: Article

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